Conference paper
Augmentations Across Virtual and Physical Topologies: Mixed Reality Re-assembled
Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp.112-120
International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), 23rd (Manizales, Colombia, 11-Jun-2017–18-Jun-2017)
ISEA International
2017
Abstract
An analysis of the material discursive practices surrounding Augmented Virtuality and Augmented Reality reveals the sometimes digressional, sometimes convergent positions taken by computer science and media art on the issue of embodiment. Mapping out some of those positions, this paper considers Mixed Reality as a topology that has an entangled and material relationship with the body, that goes beyond an analysis of Mixed Reality as a technology of augmentation rather , a topological understanding of Mixed Reality explores the patterns of diffraction (Barad 2007, p. 29) that ripple and disrupt the material thresholds between physical and virtual, troubling the over simplified real/ virtual dichotomy that permeates much Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research. Tendering an argument for Mixed Reality as a continuous topology operating between physical and virtual spaces, I will address the contrived duality of embodiment/virtuality embedded in much of the literature surrounding Mixed Reality. Then, I will offer a contrasting view of Mixed Reality as a contiguous topology where virtual and physical are interwoven by contingent and conditional 'meshworks' (De Landa, 1998) of augmentation, involving technicity, devices, bodies, and objects.
Details
- Title
- Augmentations Across Virtual and Physical Topologies: Mixed Reality Re-assembled
- Authors
- Rewa Wright (Author) - UNSW Sydney
- Publication details
- Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Art, pp.112-120
- Conference details
- International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA), 23rd (Manizales, Colombia, 11-Jun-2017–18-Jun-2017)
- Publisher
- ISEA International
- Date published
- 2017
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99679196002621
- Output Type
- Conference paper
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